Scores is a writing project made in collaboration with Katharine Fronk, conducted at the invitation of the editors of a Haptic Poetry anthology (Jesse Glass & Kevin Thurston). By way of provocation, they mailed a small cardboard box as a container for the contribution. The writing was made in 111 tiny single-stapled books which Katharine & I cut out of full-size composition Blue Books. Each step of the process of preparing and writing in the books was documented on video. The site of our writing – the English Department copy-room where we both worked as office aides – was often interrupted by teachers on their way to other parts of the office. We used projections of Googled web-sites and played FM radio to gives ourselves common input to work from and against. I edited the video on a road-trip to NYC, where I performed a solo reading/screening of it at the ACA Gallery, December 7 2006.

In Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford 1986), Friedrich Kittler makes use of Hugo Münsterberg's early 20th century "psychotechnological" film theories when he writes: "film plays through what 'attention, memory, imagination, and emotion' perform as unconscious acts. [Film] instantiates the neurological flow of data [. . . and] presents its spectators with their own processes of perception" (161). Editing Scores was an attempt at constructing a montage whose speed would put distance between different readings of it; the programmed syntax moves at such a rate that to read one word aloud would be to immediately edit six or seven others from the utterance. In performing Scores on two occasions (NYC and in March 2007 for the Written Up Too reading series at Miami University), the tax on memory and its flight impelled me to evade the text itself, moving instead into a frantically improvised description of the collaborative process and my own intentions in editing the video. This improvisation was interrupted by an attempt to continue reading. Reading Palm was also made as a performance text with similar concerns as to investigating and modeling rates of perception and scales of attention.

The 111 books were placed in the cardboard box, along with a jump-drive containing a .dv file of the video.